The document discusses essential design principles for developers to improve understanding, communication and collaboration with designers. It covers design research, interaction design and graphic design. The presentation emphasizes making intent visible through ensuring interactive elements are visible, recognizable, have feedback, and are safe and consistent. It encourages developers to validate their ideas through quick user interviews, and to appreciate good design while avoiding some common mistakes.

3. Who are you?

4. Design Essentials for Developers

5. A common language

6. Developers do design already...

8. What we’re going to fit in today: Design Research Interaction Design Graphic Design

9. Making intent visible and emotional. Design Research Interaction Design Graphic Design

11. “ Effective use of the Language of Form” – Paul Rand

12. Images from “Paul Rand Retrospective” by Imaginary Forces.

13. Images from “Paul Rand Retrospective” by Imaginary Forces.

14. Images from “Paul Rand Retrospective” by Imaginary Forces.

15. Images from “Paul Rand Retrospective” by Imaginary Forces.

16. Images from “Paul Rand Retrospective” by Imaginary Forces.

17. Images from “Paul Rand Retrospective” by Imaginary Forces.

18. Images from “Paul Rand Retrospective” by Imagin ary Forces.

19. Images from “Paul Rand Retrospective” by Imaginary Forces.

20. Images from “Paul Rand Retrospective” by Imaginary Forces.

21. Images from “Paul Rand Retrospective” by Imaginary Forces.

22. Images from “Paul Rand Retrospective” by Imaginary Forces.

23. Images from “Paul Rand Retrospective” by Imaginary Forces.

24. Images from “Paul Rand Retrospective” by Imaginary Forces.

25. More than the sum of its parts.

26. Emergence image from Wikipedia.

34. Exposing intent through actions and feedback. Design Research Interaction Design Graphic Design

35. Image from http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4084/5115934573_6701948ed2.jpg

37. Visibility

41. Affordance

44. Feedback

45. http://www.flickr.com/photos/meganbarton/3023756556/

47. Mapping

48. http://www.flickr.com/photos/docsearls/181012863/

50. Constraints (preventing errors before they can occur)

52. Consistency (in the way visual objects are used)

55. Defining, validating, and auditing an application’s intent. Design Research Interaction Design Graphic Design

56. What is design research?

57. Generative research methods informance contextual inquiry shadowing digital diaries etc.

58. Evaluative research methods hueristic analysis expert review usability testing etc.

59. Developers can do evaluative research to validate your hunches. We call this “expert review.”

60. 1. Analyze the design, you expert you. Steps for Expert Review:

61. 2. Validate your hunches with quick user interviews.

63. Who to interview? http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/ http://www.kenrockwell.com/katie/2008.htm http://wingstoafrica.com/mali-pictures-part-2.html

64. What to say? Where to go?

65. Demo

69. In Conclusion…

70. Don ’t disrespect your designers.

71. Do appreciate beautiful design: graphic, interactive, and otherwise.

72. Do validate hunches, and validate those with quick user interviews.

73. Don ’t use Comic Sans

74. DON ’T USE YELLOW ON WHITE

75. DON ’T USE ALL CAPS WITH SCRIPTS

76. Don’t put Drop Shadows on EVERYTHING

77. Don ’t make the logo bigger.

78. Do feel empowered to design!

80. Thanks! (any questions?)